"To get something done in China, with all the bureaucracy and vested interests, you need a strong leader," said Fred Hu, managing director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Hong Kong.
 During the previous five years, that role fell to Premier Zhu Rongji, who used his charisma and caustic criticism to push reforms on oft-resistant government agencies and provinces.
-http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1047905524713147800,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_asia
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America will seize every opportunity in pursuit of peace. 
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THE U.S. SAID it is willing to talk with North Korea, but will offer no inducements to get Pyongyang to live up to nonproliferation promises. The easing of the administration stance came after talks with South Korea and Japan.
live up to = carry out
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